Get to know Oblivion better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like limbo or obscurity. In Dutch this translates to vergeetachtigheid.
Oblivion in a sentence
Oblivion meaning
- The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.
- The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland.
- A form of purgatory.
Synonyms of Oblivion
Oblivion vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Oblivion
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead. | The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland. | A form of purgatory.
- Useful related words include: limbo, obscurity, obliviousness, forgetfulness.
- Possible Dutch translations are: vergeetachtigheid.
- In the example corpus, oblivion often appears in combinations such as: into oblivion, oblivion and, to oblivion.
Context around Oblivion
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 12 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oblivion
- In this selection, "oblivion" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, scrolls, brings, operation, saw, crisis and earned stand out and add context to how "oblivion" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and hit oblivion and antidote against oblivion. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oblivion" sits close to words such as adhesive, aleppo and apprehend, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oblivion
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Morgan came in and hit Oblivion. (6 words)
Pakistan has drifted into geopolitical oblivion. (6 words)
Bad podcasts are being filtered into oblivion. (7 words)
The actual star chamber: a vastly powerful 16th-century court that enforced the will of the king by arbitrarily cutting people’s ears off, rather than a group of Eurosceptic lawyers with a grudge against Rishi Sunak for trying to save them from oblivion. (44 words)
Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf even said that he would be interested in rescuing the competition from oblivion, but while his intervention garnered plenty of headlines, there seems to be little meat on the bones of the proposal at this stage. (42 words)
The pop band was one of a handful of artists – Kylie Minogue was the biggest – who kept Gudinski’s Mushroom Records from financial oblivion while he was finding the next great Australian act. (33 words)
Sabre and Shibata trading forearms, Garcia tries to get a look in and Katsuyori piefaces him into oblivion! (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion saw Tiber Septim's last-living descendent shatter the Amulet to save Tamriel from the Oblivion Crisis.
Older sources speculated that the name is related to the Greek λήθη lḗthē (oblivion) and λωτός lotus (the fruit that brings oblivion to those who eat it).
After time in Naramata, they were sent to Australia for parachute training before they were dropped into Borneo for Operation Oblivion.
As per Box Office Mojo, Tom Cruise’s Oblivion earned globally.
As tempting as it was to stop for a few rides on Oblivion, I took a left to go through Cheadle and Oakamoor.
Bad podcasts are being filtered into oblivion.
Bears in Oblivion can be a tough enemy to face, especially the brown bears found in the Jerall mountains.
He denounced garlic crushers as he bashed a clove into oblivion with a pan, and championed butter over margarine (“not food”, he insists).
It’s a reenactment designed to rescue a defunct institution from oblivion.
Moments after Empower Field at Mile High rocked in celebration, Johnson’s shining moment faded into oblivion.
Morgan came in and hit Oblivion.
Pakistan has drifted into geopolitical oblivion.
Sabre and Shibata trading forearms, Garcia tries to get a look in and Katsuyori piefaces him into oblivion!
Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf even said that he would be interested in rescuing the competition from oblivion, but while his intervention garnered plenty of headlines, there seems to be little meat on the bones of the proposal at this stage.
Some providers, for example, only log activity in RAM during a session or automatically send all records to oblivion once they’re created.
Teofimo Lopez out-sped, outboxed, out-thought, out-punched and repeatedly sent close to oblivion the Scottish laird of the light-welterweight division.
The actual star chamber: a vastly powerful 16th-century court that enforced the will of the king by arbitrarily cutting people’s ears off, rather than a group of Eurosceptic lawyers with a grudge against Rishi Sunak for trying to save them from oblivion.
The lady just stiff arms this girl into oblivion.
The most terrible things can become reality and art has the duty to remember them because it is a powerful antidote against oblivion.
The pop band was one of a handful of artists – Kylie Minogue was the biggest – who kept Gudinski’s Mushroom Records from financial oblivion while he was finding the next great Australian act.
Common combinations with oblivion
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- into oblivion 50×
- oblivion and 13×
- to oblivion 12×
- of oblivion 10×
- from oblivion 7×
- in oblivion 5×
- oblivion but 5×
- oblivion with 4×
- oblivion the 4×
- for oblivion 4×